October 2015, Vol. 22, Issue 3
5 Indicators of Decimal Understandings
Kathleen Cramer, Debra Monson, Sue Ahrendt, Karen Colum, Bethann Wiley, and Terry Wyberg
Follow children who used grids and decimal +/– charts to taste the richness of Common Core decimal standards.
Violet is a fourth-grade student in an urban district in the upper Midwest who, when asked to name and compare 0.38 to 0.4, responded in a way that is familiar to many fourth-grade teachers:
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